Harry Gribbon is sent off to fight World War One with a horse descended from Paul Revere's mount and an instrumental trio to accompany his singing in this burlesque of.... wait, was there a genre of musical frontline service comedies?
Jokes of all stripes fly fast an furious, some of them funny, some of them just poor; if you didn't laugh at this one, wait a second, and another will come along. There's Lew Kelly as a general who's sad because there's no room for advancement. There's Yola D'Avril as a spy whom Gribbon must vamp and vice versa. Although the time for comedies like this may have passed, at the time serious war dramas and service comedies made a good target, and this lets so many shots fly, at least some of them hit.
Jokes of all stripes fly fast an furious, some of them funny, some of them just poor; if you didn't laugh at this one, wait a second, and another will come along. There's Lew Kelly as a general who's sad because there's no room for advancement. There's Yola D'Avril as a spy whom Gribbon must vamp and vice versa. Although the time for comedies like this may have passed, at the time serious war dramas and service comedies made a good target, and this lets so many shots fly, at least some of them hit.
